Re: DAD question

Joel,

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>> True, but the odds of this happening are very low.  I wonder if we have any data on DAD detecting duplicate addresses and their cause.
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>> For example, has any seen any actual duplicate MAC addresses?  It would be good to collect some data.
> Most sun machines that I recall had the same mac address on all interfaces.

Right, but that would cause DAD to trigger unless the interfaces were connected to the same link.  I would think this is an issue for servers.

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> Duplicate macs are generally in my experience the product of deliberate configuration, cloning virtual machines or similar activity.

That makes sense.

Thanks,
Bob

>> Bob
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